210 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



could be exported already in 1887 from that State [" Journ. 

 Soc. of Arts," xxxix, 78]. At Auckland, 1ST.Z., 200 acres are 

 planted with Fragaria, the daily yield in the season being about 

 40 quarts on an acre, worth there sixpence each [B. DawsonJ. 



Fragraria Illinoensis, Prince. 



North- America. Hovey's seedling and the Boston-kind from 

 this plant. Is regarded by Professor Asa Gray as a variety of F. 

 Virginiana. 



Frag-aria pratensls, Duchesne. (F. elatior. Ehrhart.) 



Cinnamon- Strawberry. "Hautbois." In mountain-forests of 

 Europe. F. moschata (Duchesne) is a variety of this species. The 

 lower portion of the succulent receptacle is seedless. 



Fragraria vesca, Linne.* 



Wild Wood- Strawberry. Naturally very widely dispersed over 

 the temperate and colder parts of the northern hemisphere, extend- 

 ing northward to Lapland and Iceland, southward to the mountains 

 of Java, ascending the Himalayas to 13,000 feet [J. D. Hooker]. 

 From this typical form probably some of the other strawberries 

 arose. Middle forms and numerous varieties now in culture were 

 produced by hybridization. These plants, although already abound- 

 ing in our gardens, are mentioned here, because they should be 

 naturalized in any ranges. Settlers, living near some brook or 

 rivulet, might readily set out plants, which with others similarly 

 adapted would gradually spread with the current. Unlike many 

 other plants they are not destroyed by bush-fires. Fragarias are 

 in the lowlands of the tropics best treated as annuals to be pro- 

 ductive. The minute seeds Avill retain their vitality for fully three 

 years. A highland-variety, F. alpina (Persoon) furnishes fruit 

 throughout the warm season, long after the other varieties cease 

 bearing in gardens [Vilmorin]. Dr. Bersch recommends for the 

 preservation of strawberries and any other sort of non-keeping 

 table-fruits a solution of one drachm of salicylic acid and f Ibs. of 

 sugar in one quart of water, into which the fruits, without boiling, 

 are simply immersed ; they will thus keep many months. 



Fragraria Virginiana, Miller. 



Scarlet Strawberry. Eastern North- America, extending north- 

 ward to 64 [Sir J. Richardson], therefore adapted for the coldest 

 climates also; yet even fruiting well in Bermuda [Sir J. Lefroy]. 



Frazinus Americana, Linne.* 



The White Ash. Eastern North- America, extending from Florida 

 to Canada. A large tree, which delights in humid forests. Trunks 

 have been found 75 feet long without a limb, and 6 feet in diameter 

 [Emerson]. It is the best of all American Ashes and of compara- 

 tively rapid growth. In Nebraska the stem attains to about 32 



